Identifier: annualreport6331909newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York State Museum
Subjects: New York State Museum Science Science
Publisher: Albany : University of the State of New York
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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esh is highly esteemed as food. Nettion crecca (Linnaeus) European Teal Anas c r e c c a Linnaeus. Syst. Nat. Ed. 10. 1758. 1:126A. O. U . Check List. Ed 2. 1895. No. (138) nsttion, Gr. diminutive, vrymov, a duckling; crecca, Lat., referring to the voice, or quack Distinguishing marks. Similar to the Green-winged teal, but no whitecrescent in front of the wing; long scapulars and inner secondaries, creamywhite, forming a conspicuous broad white streak; the dusky barring of thesides and upper parts coarser. Females and young of this teal can scarcely be determined unlessby careful comparison with authentic specimens, but seem to be brownerand less finely variegated than the American bird. This palearctic species occurs in Greenland and casually along thex^tlantic coast of America. J, G. Bell reported several specimens fromLong Island and the vicinity of New York taken in 1858 and earlier (seeCoues, Key to North American Birds, 2: 918). Mr Foster Parker reports ig2 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM
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European teal. Nettion crccca (Linnaeus). From Hudsons British Birds. ^ nat. size one taken in the Montezuma marshes April lo, 1902. Two males fromMerrick, L. I. taken about December 17, 1900, reported by Braislin (Auk,19: 145). Nettion carolinensis (Gmelin)Green-winged Teal Plate 13 Anas carolinensis Gmelin. Syst. Nat. 1788. 1:533 DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 340, fig. 249A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 139 carolinensis, of Carolina Description. Male: Head slightly crested, rich chestnut-brown, withblack chin and a large patch of glossy green extending backward from theeye to the end of the crest where it meets its fellow, tawny black on itslower border and margined with a thin white line, more or less distinct; a BIRDS OF NEW YORK 193 white crescent in front of wing; iipper parts and flanks finely waved withblack bars on a grayish white surface; under parts whitish, buffy on breastand clouded with gray and marked with round white spots; outer scapularsand tail coverts, an

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